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----------------------------------------------------------- This Diary is filed daily. ** Indicates new events----------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, AUGUST 27
- KUALA LUMPUR - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka Tilak Janak Marapana will undertake a working visit to Malaysia.
- ULAANBAATAR - The Sultan of Johor Sultan Ibrahim Ismail Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj visits Mongolia.
- SANTIAGO, Chile - Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez meets Chile's President Sebastian Pinera at the government house.
- ADDIS ABABA - Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry will meet with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for talks over a dam Addis Ababa is building on the Nile River that Cairo fears threatens its water supplies.
- PARIS - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire meets in Paris with his Turkish counterpart Berat Albayrak about strengthening economic ties following U.S. sanctions against Turkey. - 1330 GMT
EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 (to Aug. 27). EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh International Book Festival (to Aug. 27).
BEIJING – The Uruguayan Foreign Minister, Rodolfo Nin Novoa will pay an official visit to China at the invitation of Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (to Aug. 28).
CAIRO/ ADDIS ABABA - Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse are going to pay State visits to Ethiopia and Egypt (to Aug. 29).
BEIJING - Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will pay an official visit to China (to Aug. 30).
BEIJING - Peruvian Foreign Minister Nestor Francisco Popolizio Bardales pay an official visit to China (to Aug. 29).
SINGAPORE - 50th ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meeting & Related Meetings 6th RCEP Ministerial Meeting (to Sept. 2). THAILAND - Special Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM)-(to Aug. 31). DAKAR - World Health Organization conference - WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Gebeyesus to discuss health issues in Africa (to Aug 31).
JOHANNESBURG/ ABUJA/ NAIROBI - British Prime Minister Theresa May will visit South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. May will give a speech in South Africa early on 28th August (Tuesday) morning. (to Aug. 31). WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Donald Trump and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta confer at the White House.
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- COPENHAGEN, Denmark - French President Emmanuel Macron on a state visit to Denmark, meets Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and holds news conference.
- PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis visits Italy and Malta, where he will meets counterparts Giuseppe Conte and Joseph Muscat.
- BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic speak to reporters after their working lunch. - 1000 GMT
- MILAN, Italy - Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini meets Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban - 1500 GMT
- WASHINGTON DC, United States - U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis and Indonesian Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu confer at the Pentagon - 1815 GMT SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia - Spain President Pedro Sanchez on official visit to meet Bolivian President Evo Morales.
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- PARIS, France - Canadian foreign minister Chrystia Freeland delivers speech in conference of French ambassadors.
- PARIS, France - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and his German counterpart Olaf Scholz speak at the annual summer conference of MEDEF employers' association - 1800 GMT
BOGOTA - Spain President Pedro Sanchez visits Colombia and meets Colombian President Ivan Duque.
MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir in Moscow.
HELSINKI - The French President Emmanuel Macron will make an official visit to Finland and meet his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto as well as Prime Minister Juha Sipila (to Aug. 30).
VIENNA - Informal meeting of defence ministers meeting (to Aug. 30).
VENICE, Italy – 2018 Venice International Film Festival (to Sept. 8).
COPENHAGEN - French President Emmanuel Macron visits Denmark.
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- KATHMANDU - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Nepal for the fourth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit (to August 31).
- ISLAMABAD - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visits Pakistan.
- BOGOTA, Colombia - Spain's president Pedro Sanchez on official visit to meet Colombia's President Ivan Duque. ACCRA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Ghana.
VIENNA - Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers (to Aug. 31).
ABUJA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel pays a state visit to Nigeria (to Aug. 31).
COPENHAGEN - World Food Summit (to Aug. 31).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 31BEIJING - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso meets Chinese counterpart Liu Kun in Beijing.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1MOSCOW - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will pay an official visit to Russia.
MAURITANIA - Mauritanian National Assembly election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2JERUSALEM – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to discuss cooperation in labor, tourism, trade, agriculture, counterterrorism and law enforcement (to Sept. 5).
RWANDA - Rwandan Chamber of Deputies election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3JERUSALEM - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte continues his visit to Israel (to Sep. 04).
MOSCOW - Moldovan President Igor Dodon expected in Moscow with official visit on September (to Sep. 6).
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- ISLAMABAD - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Pakistan. - - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hold talks with India Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
LUXEMBOURG CITY - French President Emmanuel Macron holds a public meeting on the subject of the future of the European Union with Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel - 1500 GMT.
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- TEHRAN - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Iran.
- VIENNA - Eurogroup meeting - 0700 GMT
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9SWEDEN - Swedish Parliament election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10VIENNA – United Nations IAEA, Board of Governors meeting (to Sept. 14).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11HANOI - World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Vietnam. Details to be updated once available (to Sept. 13).
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13MANILA - Philippines' economic managers, transportation officials and businessmen attend the Arangkada 2018 forum on infrastructure projects - 0030 GMT.
RIGA - The Presidents of 13 EU members will meet in Latvia in the 14th meeting of the Arraiolos Group, where they will discuss the future of Europe and future security challenges. The event coincides with Latvia's centenary year (to Sept. 14).
RIGA - The Presidents of Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Hungary and Germany meet to discuss EU matters (to Sept. 14).
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17VIENNA - IAEA, General Conference, Sixty-second session (to Sept. 21).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21BERLIN - Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak and his German counterpart Olaf Scholz to meet in Berlin.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23SWITZERLAND - Referendum election.
MALDIVES - President election.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28BERLIN - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a state visit to Germany (to Sept. 29)
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29NEW YORK - Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will visit New York to participate in the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly (to Oct. 2).
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